The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-05-14

-. VI '7he Or III. | worked
ilaif The DAY yesterday making u
ofosahow for Carl, for lIp says he
can shoot a gun in town, but there
y no town law against a crosshow.
he ana Jessie want to 90 harefoofed
ana the family are holding a conyep-
tion upon the subject now. | think
that Carl will pull through all right.
but lessie's feet are doomed.
What aglorious picture Mr.. Lamar
gave US OF the old southern planters
home. The sweet and noble asso-
clations: the pure refining and eIeva-
ting atmosphere: the abode of doues-
tic joys and duties: the hospitality
heartfelt, simple and generous.n r
wonder il he was not limiting at
Professor Iillett's article in the Cen
fury when he said:
"fhe southern planter was far
from being the self-indulgent, indo-
lent, overbearing person that he has
sometimes been pictured. He vas in
general, careful, patient, provident,
industrious, forbearing, and vet firm
and determined. There were the
qualities that enabled him to take
a race of savages and make them the
finest body Of agricultural and do
mestic laborers the world has ever
seen and to elevate them in the
scale of national existence. I'm his
daily and yearly provision for these
dependents for whom he felt respon-
sible and about whom his anXieties
were ever alive he was himself edu-
Gated in those faculties which enabled
l,i I n Ia, Il
preside in his county court or become
a member of the legislature or take
his place in the national councils and
hence it was that the southern plan
ler was so well fitted to discharge the
duties of local nagistracy, to guide
legislatures and command armies,'
Then Mr.. Lamar in confirmation of
his uttcrances cites many of the no.
blest Americans who were reared
upon the old plantations.
We of the old south are cOmforted
ut this great speech made at the un-
yelling of Mr.. Caihoun's monument.
1t cCmes as authority. 1t comes from
the cabinet, an eX-cathedra and is
like Il decision of the supreme court,
it settles the question. hope now
that these Juveniles why knew moth
ing of the old patriarchal system
will hold their peace. Why, that
article in the Century gives the new
south the credit of getting fine stock
in the country, when the truth is
Kentucky had more fine stock before
the war than any northern state, and
as for hogs we never heard of a train
load of bacon coming to Georgia from
the west There were more fine fat
hogs raised in Walker county than
in any twenty counties now, and |
can prove that by Joe Wardaw. We
didn't raise as much cotton because
there was not so many laborers, but
we did raise as much to the acre and
AS much to the mule ahd we raised
more of everything else
There is no more advance in mate
rial and industrial progress except in
that general progression which new
machinery, new arts and new inven-
tions have brought everywhere.
When Mr.. Lamar spoke of the
southern planters penetrating the
dense forests of the west, the tangled
brake and gloomy wilderness and
subduing them, | was reminded OF
Journey | made through Mississippi
Just forty years ago. | rode forty
miles one day and passed but Il single
farm, That night | crossed the Chi
casahay river and stayed with a Mr.,
Calhoun, a cousin OF the great states
man. He had over hundred slaves
and they had cleared the rich river
bottoms and the cribs were full of
corn, and fat hogs were grunting
around and cows, horses and mules
aboundpd, and the negroes were slick
and greasy end we eat supper by the
lirht of thousand dollar candIe-
stick, for it was q good looking dar-
kew holding torch. This was the
life of a pioneer, one of the men that
Mr.. Lamar tells about,and who never
would have left the more pleasant
abodes of civilization except for the
care and responsibility that his de-
pendent slaves imposed upon him.
He wanted more land and better
land. The world needed the cotton
and it was manifest destiny that they
should raise IL. And we raised hogs
and hominy too, but we don't now,
we buy 1t.
Now that is all have to say about
the old south Mr.. Lamar has settled
it exactly to my mind and 50 let it go
down to history~-and If any more
witnesses are needed Joe WardIaw
will take the stand. He anows. he
loves TO talk about the old times when
he drove hogs by the hundreds. Yes.
the five hundred from Walker coun--
tv down to Columbus, and how lust
before they got to town some of the
drovers would drive through a big
mud puddle and let the hogs wa'loW
and get full of mud, and then sci,
them by gross weight on foot, and
how lhey used to weigh with great
hir steelyards hog at time, ana
there Il a way to make the yard KICK
the beam few pounds light or heavy,
according as you are buying or sell.
ing, and some of the drovers knew,
the tricks and all of them practlce,d
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